On Sun, 06 Apr 2014 17:29:19 -0700 Colin Percival <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 04/06/14 09:42, tarsnap wrote: > > I have 2 issues remaining that keep puzzling me, maybe someone can > > point out what I'm doing wrong? > > > > 1. If I make a backup > > ( sudo tarsnap -cpf <archive-name> <file-to-backup> ) it doesn't > > find the file /usr/local/etc/tarsnap.conf without being directed to > > it through the --configfile option. > > That's odd. What OS are you running and how did you install > Tarsnap? It may be that tarsnap is looking in a different directory. Tarsnap is installed in a template VM of Qubes-OS. Now after a reply by 'Tim Bishop', I found that the tarsnap.conf.sample was located in /usr/etc/, so I will try to see what happens when I put the .conf in there. > > 2. Terminating a running backup through ^Q, seeing it finish > > cleanly, and then repeating the same backup command later, gives me > > a <quote> > > An archive already exists with the > > name "<archive-name>.part" > > tarsnap: Error creating new archive > > </quote> > > Which surprises me, because it's documented as being supposed not to > > do this. > > This looks correct to me. The first archive was truncated thanks to > you hitting ^Q, so it had .part added to its name. Yes, but wasn't it supposed to continue with building the archive upon re-issuing the backup command? As a side-note (see also another added post here) I must add that it does not seem to exit totally cleanly, as the exit messages are: tarsnap: Archive truncated tarsnap: Error exit delayed from previous errors. Could it be that the second message gives some indication that re-issuing the same backup command won't work? thanks
